The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-22


their ice storage houses 400, 900 dozen of eggs.
They have been doing little storing in the last
ten days, account of the extreme heat.
". II. Coleman. at his three establishments.
is turning out 100 carloads per mouth of manu-
featured slaves and headings. lie now has forty
more men at work than during the summer of
1886
The sales of Barry & Co. saw manufacturers
for the first six months of 1887, foot up within
few dollars OF the sales during the entire year of
1886. which was considered by them prosper
year.
The iourneymen bakers are again uneasy over
wages, and tomorrow night VIII meet the
bosses. and will offer another scale of prices for
them to adopt. Whether not they will do
is said to be uncertain.
The fruit canning establishments are not do
ing the business this year that they did in 1886,
owing to the scarcity of fruits. They hope to
can many tomatoes and much corn as last
year if rain comes in time to make the crops
mature large and sound.
Gardner g Co, who ara building an abbator
on the ground whore the Ferguson pork-hou
was burned down. will do an extensive business
in canning meats, and have contracted for sew
enty- horse power boiler. four large tanks
and two immense iron Kettles.
Dealers in gas-welI supplies report the demand
for large pipe for mains having fallen off
largely, but the demand for small ppe to pipe
the gas to manufactures and dwellings is daily
increasing. knight q Jillson have this week
shipped over 10 900 feet of small gas pipe.
One of the busiest places in the country is
the indianapolis car Works, working
full handed and full time. number of the
men who were thrown out of employment by
the burning of the Terre Haute works have
found employment here
During the hot spell last week. Kingan & Co.
reduced the number of hogs killed to 1000 per
day. They yesterday increased the number to
1000 Summer pork packing shows a decrease
in volume of only about one and onethird per
cent from that of last year, the difference being
an increase
The Udell Woodenware Company has just
completed large building to be used dry
house, and the building formerly used is now
occupied a manufacturing department., in
which fine new machinery is being placed. These
works have standing order for two carloads
per week of step-ladders from one house on the
Pacific coast.
Hetherngton & Berner have received an order
from one of the Western roads for six iron turn
tables, fty-ive feet in length, to be delivered
they be manufactured This firm
has also been awarded the contract TO put up
the iron fronts for the New English and Faehr
blocks to be erected on South Illinois street.
The manufacture of ice cream has become
quite industry in Indianapolis Besides fur
nishng citizens, from 100 to 200 gallons are
shipped daily to surrounding towns, and recent
ly five hundred gallons we're shipped IN one day
TO Cincinnati One reason assigned fof the
growth of this industry is the abundance of
milk to be had near here.
The two largest grain elevators in the city
idle and the other three are running but about
half the time for the benefit of private parties
The weather i s never so hot but that Fred Rush
will stop aud give his views on the relation of
the interstate law to the elevators in this city
1t is rather severe the strictly public eleva-
The scalping elevators can do enough 10
pay expenses.
e. C. Atkins & Co., have begun the manu-
facture of a cross-cut which will run year in
and year out without setting, cutting tim Der
rapidly and running easily. Their 8S.inch cir
cular-saws have been named the Cyclone saws.
Mr.. Atkins says that the field in which their
work is sold is steadily widening. There is not
a State or Territory in the Union where their
make Of saws has not been introduced.
A correspondent in California writes: I'm
the line of flour milling, machinery made in
Hoosierdom has by Ifar our preference There
has been shipped to this coast, within the past
few months over $175, 900 worth of flour mill
machinery, all of which came from the factory
of Nordyke & Marmon Co, of Indianapolis,
who build all the good mills in this glorious
climate. This, of course, makes Indianapolis
the Mecca toward which each miller turns his
eyes for the good and useful things in his line
of business"